Senior Backend Developer - GOALS game studio (Stockholm or Remote)

You will be part of changing
the way we look at games


Imagine having a once in a lifetime opportunity at your hand where you will have the chance to be part of creating something that will completely change the way we look at games.

Picture yourself in a team with people who share the vision of building a football game for everyone, with gameplay first as the highest priority and where we are unstoppable in making that vision become a reality.

Now, what if you would have the chance to join this team and where you will be part of working on the solution making it possible for 100 + million players to go online and play, all at the same time.

Take that vision and do as we do - make it become a reality!

Your impact


Our backend team has a key position in making GOALS successful as an online first, multiplayer game.

As part of the team you will build and maintain our backend services such as account/ authentication, leaderboards, telemetry pipelines, game servers, lobby functionality and more. Your previous experience from coding and architectural design will have a huge impact on were we go from here.

We count on you to bring a lot of knowledge and experience in the cloud domain since we are fully cloud based. You will have the trust and mandate to solve problems using your previous experience, and research and collaborate to find the best way forward. Of course you will not be left alone. At GOALS we collaborate across crafts in feature teams and encourage everyone to raise their voice to drive our change.

Our tech stack is multi-region cloud based with a microservice architecture. We use Golang with gRPC/protobuf and follow modern best practices for orchestrating our services; among these you’ll find Bazel, Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo and more.

You will be tackle questions and find the answers to:

- How to build backend services that are both testable, scalable, cost efficient and of high quality
- How to build automations and tooling to reduce repetitive tasks
- How to build telemetry pipelines to cope with high amount of events to be ingested into BigQuery


Focus Areas


In this role you will be focusing on areas such as:

- Together with the cloud team build and maintain our backend services as well as designing (and discussing) how our client cloud should interact with our APIs
- As a senior backend developer you will guide and support other team members
- Hands on coding using Golang and other languages
- Be part of creating a sustainable cloud infrastructure for the game


Who you are


We are building our backend system from scratch and to thrive in this position you have a mix of experience and problem solving mindset that helps you easily find a way forward. Sometimes the requirements are not as clear as you would prefer but you don’t mind. You know how to validate them.

Of course you have no problem starting out from a more or less blank sheet. You look at this as a great opportunity to finally get the chance to do things in a much better and more efficient way than you have experienced before. You don’t only rely on your experience, you keep yourself updated with the latest trends and tools to incorporate into your advice and suggestions to how we should do things.

We plan and structure our work and roadmap on realistic plans and therefore it’s important that you can plan and structure your work as other parts of the game development are dependent on the backend services and its progression.

You’re used to working together with others, both people within your own discipline and in cross functional teams. You have no problem taking or giving input from/to others. GOALS arena is for everyone and when we come together as a team, we can achieve what others thought is impossible to do.

Let’s narrow it down to the short list



On paper we believe that you have:

- 5+ years of experience from high traffic and scalable backend systems
- Experience working with Golang, gRPC & protobuf
- Kubernetes
- Cloud platforms (GCP or AWS)
- Git
- University degree in Computer Science or similar


What's in it for you?


At GOALS we are all about encouraging creativity, curiosity, and innovation. We want a culture where people feel safe to be themselves, and where we support and treat each other with respect.

We empower flexibility and believe in a balanced workplace. We know that the best solutions will be created when everyone feels they can choose how and when to work. As an inclusive and international company, you decide where to work (hybrid remote/remote/onsite) and when to do the job.

We value our team and every individual is equally important to us. We offer great benefits that you can read more about here (https://careers.goals.co/pages/benefits)

About the Employment



The position is permanent, starting with 6 months of probationary employment. You can work from our Stockholm office, fully remote or hybrid. It is important that you are able to communicate unhindered in verbal/written English and that you can work in a timezone close to Stockholm (CET 0-3 hours).

For this position we do not offer relocation assistance.

Join us!


GOALS is all about dreams coming true and we know this will only be possible when we have people within our team that add different skills and perspectives to what we’re doing.

From research, we know that women and members of other under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs when they feel like they don't meet every single qualification, even though they are suitable for the position.

Do you have the passion? We're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive studio environment and strongly encourage you to apply even though you don’t feel you tick every single box.

For this role we would like you to include:

- LinkedIn-profile, CV or any other document that showcase your experience

About GOALS


GOALS is a Stockholm-based AAA game studio founded in 2021.

Recognizing there wasn’t a fast-paced, competitive, multiplayer-focused football game on the market we decided to change that. Let’s bring football into esports for real! Bridging the gap between the real world and the digital, we’re building something more that is more than a game.

Humble in the way we work; embracing that skilled and passionate people are the heart and core of our studio. Not humble in our objective; creating the best football game in the world.

We are making a game that is more competitive, more inclusive, and more fun to play by ut...